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telescope

[tel-uh-skohp] / ˈtɛl əˌskoʊp /




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"It's the largest trans-Neptunian object found in about 20 years, and Rubin turned it up while we were still commissioning the telescope."

From Science Daily ● Nov. 14, 2026

The meteors will be visible with the naked eye, with no binoculars or telescope required.

From BBC ● Nov. 7, 2026

Its observations have helped reshape astronomers' understanding of the cosmos, and the telescope continues to produce discoveries that advance research across many areas of astronomy.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 4, 2026

It did so as it announced cuts to several other particle physics and astronomy projects, including Jodrell Bank's iconic Lovell telescope.

From BBC ● Nov. 3, 2026

Cardinal Bellarmine himself looked through Galileo’s telescope and appointed what we would now call a scientific subcommittee of learned priests to examine Galileo’s claims for the instrument.

From "The Scientists" by John Gribbin

The researchers are making Lumina available to other scientists, allowing its predictions about early cosmic structures to be compared with observations from existing and future telescopes.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 12, 2026

Dark matter is an invisible form of matter that does not emit or reflect light, making it impossible to observe directly with conventional telescopes.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 7, 2026

By combining the observations from both telescopes, the researchers reconstructed the structure of Betelgeuse's outer layers, beginning just above its visible surface and extending outward to several times its radius.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 4, 2026

The researchers also had to account for differences among the telescopes used to collect the observations.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 23, 2026

Christiaan Huygens loved to grind and polish lenses for astronomical telescopes and constructed one five meters long.

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan

But this time around, in Burkina Faso, the timetable has telescoped.

From BBC ● Jan. 26, 2022

Her authenticity steadies the heartbeat of a film whose cuteness can sometimes grate, and whose telescoped view offers little sense of life beyond Buddy’s block.

From New York Times ● Nov. 11, 2021

There were two wheels at one end and a handle that telescoped out from the base at the other.

From Washington Post ● Nov. 18, 2018

At the Sirius Town Hall, the old “Mike and the Mad Dog” jingle plays, and fans in throwback Mets jerseys gather, and time has been telescoped.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 11, 2017

The windows had inside shutters of slatted wood which telescoped into a narrow space on either side.

From "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" by Betty Smith

For the encore, they cleared the perimeter of the stadium floor and drove around on giant, telescoping platforms, trailed by inflatable characters, like they were in a Macy's Day parade.

From BBC ● Sep. 25, 2025

Then we step forward — you can think of telescoping in on finer and finer timescales — we get from the billion year timescale to the hundreds of millions year timescale.

From Salon ● Sep. 29, 2023

And enveloping almost every single one of those tampons is a telescoping cardboard applicator.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 3, 2023

In addition to telescoping time, then, identities could actively use temporal displacement in their communication.

From Scientific American ● Jun. 14, 2023

Sohrab threw his arm over my shoulder and smiled into his mom’s telescoping lens.

From "Darius the Great Is Not Okay" by Adib Khorram


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